German Transportation

Germany has numerous ports at or around the North Sea. The North Sea is the major waterway with which German trade occurs. Major port cities include Brake, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Cuxhaven, Emden, Hamburg, Leer, Nordenham, Oldenburg, Pepenburg, and Wilhelmshaven with Hamburg being the largest.

Deutsche Bahn is the major German railway infrastructure and service operator and although it is privately owned, the government owns all of its shares. Many cities in Germany have operating metros including Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich. The InterCityExpress is a high speed train system that runs through Germany and neighboring cities such as Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Paris. Germany has approximately 650,000 km of roads. Federal roads are called Bundesstraben. The roads are recognized by numbers and the more important roads usually have low numbers. Odd-number roads usually apply to north-south routes and even-number roads represent east/west routes.

Frankfurt International Airport is the largest airports in Germany and one of the top-ten in the world. Munich and Berlin's airports are respectively the second and third largest airports in Germany. Germany has 320 airports with paved runways and 295 airports with unpaved runways.